Tag: Image-Consumption

Since plans for conquering the Red Planet are becoming more serious, we should get acquainted with the possible view from up there. The distance between Mars and the Earth is about 50 milion miles. One martian year lasts approximately 687 terrestrial days, but one day is just 37 minutes longer than our 24h standard. Don’t let it fool you: Mars is not a pleasant environment at all. There are numerous aspects that make us think twice before we decide to move there.

We somehow got used to the fact that most images are “photoshopped” and no longer rely on them as depiction of reality. What if the same would happen to sound? Adobe, the company behind Photoshop, announced Project VoCo, a voice editing software.

In 2012 the movie Hunger in Los Angeles, by documentary filmmaker and journalist Nonny de la Peña, was presented at Sundance Festival. Despite its shortness (only 3.5 minutes long), it was a major step towards a completely new way of telling stories: immersive journalism. The film presented a real-life situation that happened on a street of LA using a VR technique. Since then, there have been many attempts to turn this playful technology into a serious medium.

“In the future everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes”, British artist Banksy mocked the common urge to be famous. It seems this future is coming really fast: the latest researches showed how AI can recognize human faces even if meant to be incognito.

You see your baby’s smiling face and reach out to hug her, you play, cuddle your dog, show a butterfly on your hand and… record it all. The new Spectacles by Snap Inc. allow you to actually “make memories” (as their slogan claims) while capturing them.

Last week nearly 70 portraits of cats replaced all advertisements at the Clapham Common tube station in London. Responsible for the guerilla action is The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service, or in short CATS, who earlier this year raised over £23.000 to make their feline dreams come true.

Wait, what just happened? Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular ad-blocking tool, just announced they are launching an advertising service for “acceptable” ads. Instead of saving the Internet from all ads, Adblock Plus is striving to replace the bad ads with good ads.

Meet Lil Miquela, the Instagram it-girl who has over 80.000 followers obsessing over her existence. She is one of the hottest new faces around and strolls the streets of Los Angeles, visiting art shows and drinking coffee. With her perfect hair, eyes and nails, it appears Miquela is living the perfect life. And just like any other Instagram account, it is unclear when fantasy stops and reality kicks in.

There is a piece of the world that has not been mapped by Google’s all-seeing eye, and that’s a shame according to Visit Faroe Islands, the tourist agency of the “sheep islands” that launched a petition to get Google there. With a population of 49.188 humans and 80.000 sheep, the archipelago rightfully deserves its name. As part of Denmark, the 18 tiny islands in the north Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland are invisible to the maps of Google Street View, so they invented their own Street View technology. Introducing, Sheep View 360.

The launch of augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go certainly did not go unnoticed. The world basically went crazy for it. The game “broke the Internet” and troops of trainers entered the augmented arena, all determined to become Pokémon masters. An avalanche of media attention is what followed.